In 2014, we had the privilege of driving several breakthrough models, some featuring high technology, others reflecting a new direction for familiar automakers. Here are the best of the sedans and sporty cars; next week we’ll feature sport-utility vehicles and our Car of the Year. TOY ...

As we count down to Oscar, broadcast and cable outlets offer movie choices with Academy Award pedigrees. Take a look at what’s available on broadcast and cable television this weekend. Funny Girl (1968) When Barbra Streisand traveled to Hollywood, in 1967, to begin filming the movie version of ...

Whether being chased on the roof of a train or handcuffed to a woman who wants to report him to the police at every possible opportunity, Richard Hannay manages to get himself out of trouble almost as easily as he gets into it in a production of The Thirty-Nine Steps at the Warner Theatre, ...

Soulful A long-standing tradition, the participation of the Serendipity Chorale in a musical worship service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will be repeated on Friday, Jan. 23, at 7 at Ridgefield’s Temple Shearith Israel, 46 Peaceable Street. Gigi Van Dyke, who leads the chorale, and ...

There are no hard-and-fast rules for what makes a hike versus what amounts to just a walk. Many adventurers have called their punishing foot-journeys “walks”. Take John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. He wrote a book called A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. And there is nothing to say that a ...

“Another fresh new year is here… Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt and fear, To laugh and love and give!” —William Arthur Ward There is something so wonderfully restorative about a New Year! The New Year gives us a joyous opportunity to begin anew, to rewind after a hectic ...

Q. What is the best way to turn down an invitation to something you don’t want to do or somewhere you don’t want to go? A. Honesty is usually, as always, the best policy. “Wow, thanks for thinking of us Ann, but we are amusement park-avoiders, so I’ll say no, but will hope we can... Read More